What is a good OSHA incident rate? It’s important for employers and safety professionals to be aware of what good looks like when it comes to an organization’s incident rate. Knowing this will help protect more employees and create a safer work environment. So, let’s start at the begin...
OSHA provides workplaces with a number of different safety incident formulas that can be used to understand safety performance. Because rates are calculated in terms of “rate per 100 employees,” the LWR is primarily used by larger companies. A single additional lost day within a workplace with...
“Total recordable incident rate (TRIR) is, historically, a metric that people oriented around, but over the past 10 years the industry has successfully been able to drive that down. Now we’re seeing a transition to SIF-focused programs that target those high-consequence injuries.” It follow...
As the business owner, CEO, or founder, you might need more time to follow up with every activity. Delegating this role to a chief compliance officer significantly boosts accountability. This individual is the primary point of contact for regulatory updates, audits, and incident management. They ...
OSHA kept the five-year retention requirement from the200 logwhen it introduced Form 300. The agency estimated that entering details for each incident on the 200 log took employers anaverage of 15 minutes. Its replacement, Form 300, has a very similar average of 14 minutes. The 200 log feat...
Federal HIPAA auditors levy HIPAA fines on a sliding scale. Fines range between $100-$50,000 per incident depending on the level of perceived negligence. If auditors detect that the organization under investigation has neglected to perform a “good faith effort” toward HIPAA compliance, fines can...
Altogether, a firm's safety culture is a mix of its values, communications and, most importantly, its actions. Working on your Firm's Safety Culture All firms possess a safety culture - however, not every have an optimistic one. Before you do something to build up your firms, you have ...
In other situations, workers can receive the equivalent of sick pay while on medical leave. If an employee dies due to a work-related incident, the worker’s dependents receive the workers’ compensation payments. Recipients Waive the Right to Sue ...
Okay, now you might think, what will happen if I make a complaint to the OSHA? Will my boss take action against me? First, understand that you are doing a good thing. Second, it is against the law for your boss to take any action against you. The OSHA or other labor committees mak...
Why is it that the ICS, which has been shown to be effective in both managing the incident and in promoting the safety of response personnel regardless of the type of emergency situation in which the ICS is used, is still is not well known or well understood by those of us in the ...